Journal
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
Volume 143, Issue -, Pages 98-105Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.08.033
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease; Proactive semantic interference; Mild cognitive impairment; Biomarkers; Cognitive outcome measures; Dementia
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- National Institute of Aging [5 P50 AG047726602]
- 1Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center [1P30AG06650601, 1 R01 5R01AG055638-02, R01 AG061106-02]
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The study highlights the importance of developing measures sensitive to early cognitive changes in Alzheimer's disease, with the Loewenstein-Acevedo Scales of Semantic Interference (LASSI-L) showing promise in this area.
Specifically, the MCI amyloid positive group showed a significantly greater decline in LASSI-L performance compared to the MCI amyloid negative and CU groups, indicating the potential of LASSI-L for assisting in the diagnosis and tracking disease progression in MCI patients.
There is a pressing need to develop measures that are sensitive to the earliest subtle cognitive changes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) to improve early detection and track disease progression. The Loewenstein-Acevedo Scales of Semantic Interference (LASSI-L) has been shown to successfully discriminate between cognitively unimpaired (CU) older adults and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and to correlate with total and regional brain amyloid load. The present study investigated how the LASSI-L scores change over time among three distinct diagnostic groups. Eighty-six community-dwelling older adults underwent a baseline evaluation including: a clinical interview, a neuropsychological evaluation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and amyloid Positron Emission Tomography (PET). A follow up evaluation was conducted 12 months later. Initial mean values were calculated using one-way ANOVAs and chi-square analyses. Post-hoc comparisons were conducted using Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference (HSD). A 3 x 2 repeated measures analysis was utilized to examine differences in LASSI-L performance over time. The MCI amyloid positive group demonstrated a significantly greater decline in LASSI-L performance than the MCI amyloid negative and CU groups respectively. The scales that best differentiated the three groups included the Cued A2, which taps into maximum learning capacity, and Cued B2, which assesses the failure to recover from proactive semantic interference. Our findings further support the LASSI-L's discriminative validity.
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